Int’l tribunal rebukes Turkey’s Erdoğan for war crimes against his own people
One month before a presidential election in Turkey, an international tribunal has issued a stinging condemnation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, charging him...
Former Kurdish MP detained over 2014 protests in reaction to ISIL siege of Syrian...
Hüda Kaya, a former member of the Turkish parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), was detained at İstanbul Airport on Wednesday on...
Int’l delegation seeks permission from Turkey’s Justice Ministry to meet with jailed PKK leader
An international delegation including lawmakers from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) in Turkey has applied to the Justice Ministry for...
72 face detention over alleged Gülen links in separate investigations
Turkish prosecutors have issued detention warrants for 72 people including active duty and former military officers as well as former military cadets due to...
Swedish PM calls organizers of anti-Turkey events ‘useful idiots for foreign powers who want...
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference on Tuesday that the people who organized a Quran burning and hanged an effigy...
Turkish university launches investigation into professor over use of Kurdish poetry books in classes
A professor in the Kurdish language and literature department at Muş Alparslan University in southeastern Turkey is the subject of an investigation for using...
Journalist Nevşin Mengü faces more than 7 years in prison over interview with Kurdish...
Turkish journalist Nevşin Mengü faces up to seven and a half years in prison after publishing an interview with Salih Müslim, one of the...
6 die when boat carrying 16 people affiliated with Gülen movement capsizes in Aegean
An inflatable boat carrying 16 people affiliated with the Gülen movement en route to the Greek island of Lesbos in northwestern Turkey capsized on...
Pro-Kurdish party given additional 60 days to prepare defense in closure case
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has given the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) and additional 60 days to prepare its defense in a closure case the...
European rights court rules Turkey violated rights of 93 people arrested over alleged Gülen...
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of 93 people accused of links to the Gülen movement...
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